North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed and championed the law, which imposed provisions including voter ID requirements

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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks during a candidate forum in Charlotte, N.C., on June 24, 2016. A federal appeals court struck down a law enacted by McCrory, saying it discriminates against African-American voters.

A North Carolina voting law was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court, finding that Republican lawmakers intentionally discriminated against African-Americans, NBC News reported.

According to the federal appeals court, the measure’s provisions "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision." The court found that African-American registration and turnout rates reached parity with those of whites by 2013.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed and championed the law, which imposed a voter ID requirement, cut early voting opportunities, eliminated same-day voter registration and banned voting from outside precincts.

A district court upheld the law, but the appeals court found it erred in its decision by seeing the law’s goals as partisan rather than race-based.

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"Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices. Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African-Americans."